Our Pioneer Potters [SIGNED]

Clement, Arthur W. Our Pioneer Potters [SIGNED]. New York: The Maple Press, 1947. Limited edition. 1/500. ix. 94,15pp. Quarter cloth over pink paper covered boards in original slipcase. Gilt lettering to spine. Lower edge of slipcase torn but holding. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. “I have adopted the alternative course of discussing in some detail a relatively small number of potteries which seemed to me of unusual interest, and I ask that this book be accepted, not as an incomplete history of American ceramics, but as a serious attempt to state within the limits of a readable volume an accurate foundation upon which future research and writing may be based”. Index of Potters. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Slipcase in good, book in near fine condition. vg. Hardcover. (13776) $75